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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"political identification"”.
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The Religious Paradox: Examining the countervailing impacts of religious and spiritual beliefs on socio-political outcomes
… across cultures and history, yet their socio-political impacts are often ambiguous and poorly understood. This thesis examines forms of religious identification to address two fundamental gaps in the literature on religion’s impact on political attitudes. The first oversight addressed by this …
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Undergraduates' Attitudes Toward the Causes of Poverty and Homelessness: Individualistic or Structural
… the causes of poverty and homelessness. Race and political identification proved to be the best sociodemographic indicators as to whether the students would support individualistic or structural explanations.
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Getting A's in B-School: Do Conservatism and Conventional Ambition Predict Higher GPA?
… argues that the apparent influence of students' political identification on their college outcomes is really driven by differences in ambitions. In other words, conservatives tend to have a higher desire to achieve goals related to the American Dream than liberals, which influences their success …
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Finding Meaning In the Sociopolitical Experience of African American Republicans: A Phenomenological Approach
… and ideological factors contributing to political partisanship. To date, most studies related to political identification have drawn from large national databases, using quantitative methods focused on assessing political preferences, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, in order to …
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Political labels and women's attitudes
… is an exploratory study of women's attitudes to political issues. The thesis poses the broad questions of what is the range of women's attitudes to specific issues, what patterns are there to women's attitudes and how well do traditional political categories describe women's attitudes? Attitudes …
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The institutionalization of multilevel politics in Europe
… system which functions through a complex web of political relations within and across levels of decision making. The thesis argues that the rise of multilevel politics can be explained by its institutionalization in terms of the emergence, the evolution and especially the effects of relevant …
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All the president’s people? The origins of affective attachment towards political leaders
… and development of affective attachment to political leaders—termed Presidential Identification (Pres-ID)—by investigating how political contexts and exposure shape emotional connections between voters and political leaders. Drawing on scholarship about partisanship, social identity, and …
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Political Civil Servants and the Practice of Administration under National Socialism
… method with theories and perspectives from political and administrative science, systems theory, organisational theory and sociology, it will thus offer a structural understanding of bureaucratic conduct under Nazism, albeit one that places agents at the very centre of the analysis. The …
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Exploring areas of conflicts & potential resolutions between the state and the community in unplanned settlements in Zambia: a study of Kanyama compound in Lusaka district.
… as well as differences in ideologies while political issues had the least issues triggering conflicts. The study concludes that though the residents of Kanyama Compound may have survival issues that are more salient linked to deficiency needs than process needs, the state has a role to play …
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Exploring areas of conflicts & potential resolutions between the state and the community in unplanned settlements in Zambia: a study of Kanyama compound in Lusaka district.
… as well as differences in ideologies while political issues had the least issues triggering conflicts. The study concludes that though the residents of Kanyama Compound may have survival issues that are more salient linked to deficiency needs than process needs, the state has a role to play …
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Impact of Social Identity on Rape Legitimacy and Myth Acceptance
… assessed whether a statement by a deviant political ingroup (versus outgroup) member elicited measureable differences on trivialization, cognitive dissonance, rape myth acceptance, or decision to vote for that candidate, and if explicitly “debunking” the statement made by this politician …
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THE THIRD WORLD WOMEN’S ALLIANCE: HISTORY, GEOPOLITICS, AND FORM
… intersecting Third World histories and geopolitical analyses through political education, publications, and cultural events. In addition to this historical study, I seek to understand the ongoing presence of the TWWA in educational spaces through interviews with archivists and professors …
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Pulling oneself together: power and character in British literature, 1914-1939
… from all armies that had reverted to a pre-political “state of nature,” living beneath no-man’s-land in abandoned trenches and pillaging corpses in the night. This tale inspires the under-examined question that is central to my dissertation: how did the First World War alter English …